Margot Robbie shows you can in a Nissan, with BladeGlider electric sports car
Patrick Gosling Margot Robbie (Focus, The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad) has become a spokeswoman for Nissan, showing off the Japanese brand’s electric car credentials with its BladeGlider sports car around the streets of Monaco, and into Casino Square. The Australian actress tested one of the two BladeGliders on closed roads in the […]
At Cannes: Nicole Kidman in Francesco Scognamiglio; and our other highlights
The hijinks of the Festival de Cannes begin today and we’ve already caught actress Nicole Kidman in a Francesco Scognamiglio dress (above) on the Riviera. We’ll have more highlights later today as we begin filing our reports from the world’s most famous film festival. In the main part of the Lucire site, don’t forget […]
Lady Gaga is giving back with the Born This Way Foundation. The new foundation, set up by Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta, was launched at an event hosted by Oprah Winfrey at the Sanders Theater at Harvard University. The star has put up US$1·2 million of her own money to get it […]
Volvo and Vattenfall to show V60 diesel plug-in hybrid at Genève
Power company Vattenfall and Volvo have already cooperated on electric versions of the C30 and V70. The latest model, the V60 plug-in hybrid, which will be shown at the Salon de Genève on March 1, uses a diesel engine to complement the electric motor, and can be run in all-electric, hybrid or all-diesel modes. […]
BMW prepares to launch Megacity car under new sub-brand
Tonight, BMW will launch a new sub-brand to market the ‘Mega City Vehicle’, an urban electric car, in 2013. While BMW has fairly successfully pushed its Efficient Dynamics programme alongside its more performance-oriented claims, it is presumed that small and electric cars don’t fit with its slogans ‘Freude am Fahren’ and ‘The Ultimate Driving […]
Erin O’Connor launches UK version of Chevy Volt, the Vauxhall Ampera
Vauxhall Vauxhall, GM’s British brand, launched its version of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric hybrid at Chelsea Bridge on June 29, with model Erin O’Connor wearing an electric dress designed by William Tempest. O’Connor’s dress features over 1,000 lights and Swarovski crystals. It was tailored to her figure. The dress’s panelled styling, says Vauxhall, […]
BMW previews its Detroit show stars
BMW has previewed the models it will show at Detroit (the North American International Auto Show) later this month. The Z4 sDrive35is will receive its American début—BMW emphasizes it can do 26·1 mpg (US), while hitting 100 km/h in 4·8 seconds. (The regular sDrive35i that Lucire tested managed a respectable 29 mpg touring.) BMW […]
Electric car companies use COP 15 to market their wares
Above Think City cars outside the Bella Centre in København, Denmark. Electric car companies are using the København United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) as a forum to market their products—which makes one wonder if some of these conferences have come grand trade fairs, rather than one where politicians do any work toward climate […]
Electric Mini Es hit UK streets
BMW has announced that 20 prototype Mini E electric cars will be on British roads from next month, as part of a research project. They will be driven by successful online applicants, as part of a six-month leasing programme that begins in December. A second round of applications will be accepted in mid-2010, with Mini […]
More from IAA, the Frankfurt Motor Show
The Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) saw numerous débutantes from the car companies, trying to look positive in one of the toughest years ever. Below are videos from BMW, where Dr Norbert Reithofer, chairman of the board of management, is joined by German chancellor Dr Angela Merkel; and from Renault, where boss Carlos Ghosn gives insights, […]
